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KINGDOM WORKER CONNECTION 3 KINGDOM WORKER CONNECTION CONTENTS

STAFF LIST 2

PRESIDENT’S LETTER ANDY HANSEN 4

A 50th ANNIVERSARY STORY 6

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES SUPERSTART 8

BECOMING A NINJA WARRIOR 12

UNDERSTANDING THE CHAOS OF JR. HIGH 14

5.2 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT KJ-52 18

GOD-SIZED DREAMS 20

MISSIONS IS A LIFESTYLE ENGAGE 26

STANDING FOR JESUS MOVE 30

STORIES FROM THE ROAD ENGAGE 32

SOCIAL MEDIA SPOTLIGHT 33

FINAL THOUGHTS SCOTT WALKER 34

CIY PROGRAMS 35

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PRESIDENT’S LETTER

ou are very important to Christ In Youth. As president, I want to let you in on five important facts about CIY.

1. God continues to show His favor in the events, tripsY and resources CIY is providing in its partnership with the local church. This past summer more than 46,000 young people and their adult leaders attended 58 MOVE high school weeks or MIX junior high events, and hundreds more went on an Engage mission trip. Of those, 2,500 made the decision to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord (many baptized in pools, fountains or creeks at the campuses) and nearly 2,000 declared their commitment to serve in vocational ministry. On top of that, thousands of preteens and junior high students this fall were at a SuperStart or Believe event. In total, nearly 80,000 young people participated in a CIY event or trip in 2018. CIY has expanded and is an official charity in Ireland and a MOVE event for the Republic of Ireland is scheduled for 2019. A MOVE event is also launching in Calgary, Canada in 2019.

Andy Hansen

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Gary and Becky Arthur Faust join hundreds of others at the 50th Anniversary Celebration in August, committing to support CIY over the next three years during its Multiply Campaign. The campaign seeks to raise $6 million to go toward expansion of events, construction of a new film studio and training center, and an upgrade of equipment that will help the ministry create resources that can reach young people in all corners of the world in new and creative ways.

2. CIY is prayerfully preparing to grow in influence to as many for equipment to expand events, $2.5 million for the video as 100,000 young people every year by 2020. With approval production and educational complex and $2 million for from CIY’s Board of Trustees, we borrowed funds to gain specialized equipment. God has already provided nearly $1 equipment to expand and add 20 new events over the course of million toward that campaign. My prayer is that with your a three-year period. If CIY can launch these events and grow generous response, as well as from several churches and major to 1,000 attendees at each event, the result would be 20,000 donors, the Mulitply campaign will have raised more than $2 additional young people being discipled and called to a life of million before the end of 2018. Additional individual and church Kingdom work. This means that over the course of the decade of considerations in 2019, as well as three major fundraising 2020 to 2030, CIY could minister to more than 1 million students. events, have the potential to complete the goal of the Multiply campaign. Every gift is valuable. My personal appeal is for your 3. CIY is taking exciting steps toward being a leader in consideration of a sacrificial gift – one time or over a three-year communicating to young people digitally. Studies show that period. Enclosed is a response card and envelope. It would be today’s youth spend at least four hours a day on their cell phones. wonderful to receive this before the end of the year. Please, This is a screen generation. CIY has the capacity to send daily prayerfully consider and respond. age-intentional material directly to students via their phones – visual/digital information that they can easily forward to their 5. CIY continues to celebrate its 50th anniversary as a friends. This means we can influence them for Christ at events ministry. An historic and epic celebration took place on Aug. 30. where “flag in the sand” decisions are made, and then continue This event was videoed, and you can enjoy it by going to CIY’s to call, inspire and challenge them beyond the events through YouTube channel “AEffect.” Pop some popcorn, then be inspired the most popular medium that they carry everywhere. To create by the celebration that took place. Rejoice with us as to what the the content that could reach millions of students worldwide, Lord will do in the next 50 years of vision for the ministry of CIY. CIY is working toward building an adequate video studio with specialized equipment. Finally … Thank you for choosing to be a significant participant in this ministry with your prayers, promotion and provision. 4. CIY needs your prayers and sacrificial gifts to make the Together, we listen to the leading of the Holy Spirit and boldly above ministry goals a reality. To accomplish these tasks, move forward into a dynamic and ever-expanding year of CIY launched the Multiply campaign. The need is $1.5 million ministry in 2019!

CHRIST IN YOUTH 6 JOIN THE PARADE CIY Trustee Jeff Walling uses opportune moment to emphasize the importance of joining the parade of witnesses that speak to the glory of Jesus

STORY BY CHRIS ROBERTS

eff Walling is a professional speaker and storyteller who were sitting in that room together, just the two of us again.” has been leading young people to Jesus from the stages of CIY events for more than 30 years. He has taught more The deja vu moment was even more profound because sitting lessons and preached more sermons at CIY events than next to him were some young boys that Stockton had been probablyJ any two other speakers combined. He has become praying for the past few months. He wanted desperately for them well known for his whimsical wisecracks, unexpected turns to choose Christ and to pursue a life of Kingdom work. of phrase, and heartfelt stories that make a beeline to Jesus. Thousands of young people have heard him present the Gospel At the end of the message, just as Walling had done in 1999, he message over the years ... and one of them was Lance Stockton. challenged the young people in the audience to accept Jesus for the first time and be baptized. One of boys sitting next to In the late 1990s, Stockton was a young high school boy who Stockton – Sean Vitalis – responded to that call and rose from had a hard time focusing on preachers. He didn’t grow up in the his seat. He joined hundreds of others in symbolically walking Church, and didn’t have a strong understanding of the Bible or through a door that had been set up outside the main venue by the Gospel message. In fact, had it not been for a friend inviting the MIX team as a way for young people to respond to the Gospel him to a CIY summer conference, he never would have found message. himself sitting in a row of other high school freshmen listening to a message from Jeff Walling. Like Stockton, Vitalis never thought he’d have the opportunity to thank Walling for the impact he left on his life. But in early 2018, As Stockton tells it, in that moment he heard the Gospel message both Stockton and Vitalis got the opportunity to do just that. in a way he’d never heard it before – and that weekend rocked While filming a short video for the 50th anniversary celebration, his world. He found himself captivated by Walling’s words, and Walling was surprised mid-sentence when out walked Stockton sucked into the stories that he was weaving. At the end of the and Vitalis to give him a heartfelt, face-to-face “Thank you.” sermon, when Walling challenged students to accept Jesus for the first time and be baptized, Stockton had no doubts about the After tears and hugs were shared, Walling took the opportunity decision he needed to make. He gave his life to Christ that night to impress upon the two younger men the eternal implications of and returned to his church after that event and was baptized. what had transpired between all of them.

He never met Walling at that event. He never got to shake the “There were people you guys don’t know – youth leaders and man’s hand or say, “Thank you.” In fact, he never considered it speakers – who did that for me,” Walling said. “Any good thing a possibility that he could say thank you to the man who would you got out of this, is just this huge parade of people telling Jesus’ have such an impact on his life. What he did do was commit story. You guys are part of a wonderful parade that goes all the himself to vocational ministry. He dove into the Word, went to way back to the Apostles. And it’s an honor for me to join you Bible college and eventually became a youth minister. guys in that same parade. I look forward to seeing what God is going to do in your ministries, and in CIY in these next 50 years.” Fast-foward 16 years and Stockton again found himself at a CIY event sitting in a row of young boys about to go into high school. As CIY’s 50th anniversary comes to a close, the year of “Thanks” And on the stage was the very same Jeff Walling, who was sharing has been filled with some incredible stories and memories. But the Gospel message. the overwhelming sentiment shared by all of us is the one that Walling so aptly pointed out – the work is not done. The harvest “He started to get into the presentation of the Gospel and it was is still plentiful. And the Gospel still needs to be shared with like I’d seen a ghost,” Stockton said. “I had heard that before. I millions more young people around the world. So let’s join the looked up and I couldn’t get my eyes off him. It was like he and I parade.

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Celebrating and encouraging Kingdom work

kw-hub.com/storiesCHRIST IN YOUTH Jesus is the way – That idea is illustrated through a powerful moment on stage as the Durham family shows preteen students that Jesus provides us the strength we need to overcome the obstacles in our lives; especially those that keep us from God. This illustration shows that Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross is the bridge we need to get back to God. 9 OVERCOMING OBSTACLES ‘American Ninja Warrior’ Emily Durham joins SuperStart team to teach preteens how to overcome the obstacles that get in the way of sharing stories

STORY BY BECCA HAINES PHOTOS BY MATT FOREMAN & AUDREY WUNDERLICH

mily Durham was just 13 years old when she followed her big brother to competitively wakeboard in Florida – setting her life on a trajectory that would eventually enable her to share her faith in God to thousands of youngE people through “American Ninja Warrior.”

Durham, now a wife and mother of two, joined this year’s SuperStart team to minister to preteens across the U.S. by demonstrating her skills on an onstage ninja course. Patrick Snow, CIY’s senior director of weekend events, said Durham’s impressive abilities engage the preteen audience, but her evident, steadfast faith is what guides them to Jesus. She first used her influential voice for God when she was turning heads as a 14-year-old wakeboard champion in Orlando, Florida and a magazine featured her in the cover story. Today, Snow said she continues to use the platforms she’s been given, and that’s something all preteens can learn from.

“Emily was a young person in a brand-new sport,” Snow said. “She was getting sponsorships and the scene was party-style, but she didn’t partake in any of it – which is absolutely amazing. She still holds to all of that very strongly today. That’s the kind of person I want to put in front of preteens. I want them to see somebody who has done some awesome things but says that’s not the most awesome thing in life. If there’s a hero for them to get to know, it’s that type of person.”

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Not only did Durham advance in the sport of wakeboarding, she around to show his boss with the remark: “I’m going to marry this dominated it. She won gold at the Gravity Games in 2002 and girl.” It just so happened that a friend of Emily’s was attending the 2003, and silver at the X-Games in 1999 and 2001 in women’s same university. A simple conversation over lunch eventually led wakeboarding. She took first place at the Wakeboard World the friend to connect the two wakeboard enthusiasts. Championship, the Vans Triple Crown, U.S. Masters and the Pro Wakeboard Tour all in 2001. She won the U.S. Masters again in “I’ve always been her biggest fan – I even had a shirt that said it,” 2002 as well as the Malibu Open, and the Pro Wakeboard Tour Kevin Durham said. “Emily is amazing. It’s neat to be married to again in 2004. Today the 34-year-old athlete credits much of her someone who God has put on a platform and nothing in her life success to her older brother, Bart Copeland. has changed. She hasn’t become someone different.”

“Anything my big brother would tell me, I was all about it,” Durham “God used that magazine article in not only my faith but also in my said. “Bart was so cool in my mind and he was a huge part of me marriage,” Emily Durham said. “Kevin had dredlocks, piercings getting into wakeboarding and ‘American Ninja Warrior,’ too. and a heart for the Lord. We met in October and were married by He was doing it before I was, so he was the reason I got into it. I July. God brought him along in a time when I was feeling weary – I continue to follow my brother, and it’s got me to where I am today. see that now. To have a partner was a huge encouragement to me. All of us – Bart, my older sister, Tammie, our parents and I – are all We then competed in wakeboarding together.” serving the Lord in our own ways and it’s really cool.” All it took was a little nudge from her brother a few years later for Durham said those early years of choosing to walk with Christ the Durhams to try out “American Ninja Warrior.” Emily competed in the wakeboarding world oftentimes left her lonely, but God professionally for 16 years and has just finished her fourth season redeemed that. The Lord found a way to connect Emily at her on the show. Kevin has served as an obstacle course tester in three home in Denver, Colorado to a companion attending East Texas locations where his wife has competed – never failing to cheer her Baptist University. Kevin Durham said he first saw Emily on the on alongside their children: Hope, 8, and Noah, 4. cover of a magazine. While earning his degree he was a wakeboard instructor in Texas, and vividly remembers turning the magazine “I didn’t have a huge master plan to do Ninja Warrior,” Emily

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said. “Kevin has been very supportive and he enjoys doing it with joy or hobbies. For me, I feel like God taught me a lot in the time me, and so do the kids. It’s a fun family thing to do together. I tell between wakeboarding and Ninja Warrior. Finding that outlet people it’s a hobby, but honestly it’s cool to have this platform has been important for me. I hope I can encourage moms to take God’s given me. Ninja Warrior is so relevant to kids these days. care of themselves, and that it’s OK to find something you enjoy In wakeboarding I won a lot of and do it. I also see the weight of achievements that I worked really, “ being a Godly parent because really hard for – and yet with Ninja my parents had such a huge Warrior I haven’t won anything God is using (our story), and that’s what impact on me. It’s a part of our amazing. In my mind I haven’t daily lives. Everything can come met my goals of winning, but kids He’ll do with anything if you just hand from that Biblical perspective. don’t care because it’s so relevant. it over to Him. That’s why He gives us It’s very foundational. My advice I go open-handed to the Lord with to parents out there would be to it and tell Him I’m going to turn it our abilities – to use for His glory. pray. It really works.” back to Him and let Him use it. I’ve had the opportunity to minister to ” Emily said she hopes to continue literally thousands of kids using “American Ninja Warrior” for Ninja Warrior – that’s the coolest some more years, and then the thing because it’s something I next chapter of her life will involve least expected. Yet God is using it and that’s what He’ll do with her husband’s ministry, “This Is My Story,” and whatever the next anything if you just hand it over to Him. That’s why He gives us our unexpected challenge God will bring. abilities – to use for His glory. “God created me with an athletic ability and a competitive drive “I also love to empower other women – especially moms,” she said. – that’s what keeps me ticking,” she said. “Maybe rowing. I don’t “I feel like moms can lose their identity easily when their lives know. I’ve never rowed – but I never did Ninja Warrior either. Who revolve around their kids’ activities. Sometimes you lose your knows? I know there will be something else.”

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S T O R Y B Y B E C C A H A I N E S P H OTO S B Y C R A I G DA V E N P O R T & A U D R E Y W U N D E R L I C H

N S SS S 1. Fruits & Vegetables 2. Proteins 3. Water 4. Electrolytes I 5. Vitamin supplements I H S I 6. Cookies! O I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1. I trust that there have been those who have come before me and done it. S 1. Hanging from a bar. I I I I I 2. Pull-ups. I 2. I have to trust myself. I I 3. Leg movements. I Emily Durham is an “American Ninja Warrior” 4. Rope climbing. 3. I trust God. athlete who has joined the SuperStart tour alongside her family: husband, Kevin, daughter, 5. Weight training. I Hope, and son, Noah. The family helps to share I the Gospel message, while also giving tips for overcoming the obstacles of sharing testimonies.

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Revenant Worship has joined Believe for the fall/spring tour to lead junior high students in times of worship. 15 UNDERSTANDING THE CHAOS OF JUNIOR HIGH

CIY utilizes junior high ministry experts, nationally known worship leaders and cutting-edge resources to intentionally connect with junior high students

STORY BY BECCA HAINES PHOTOS BY CRAIG DAVENPORT

IY’s events, trips and resources are veteran, Kurt Johnston, who wholeheartedly agreed age-specific, with programming that is to name the new podcast after his first book that was intentionally created with language and published in 2001 in order to create a supportive network topics that hit right at the heart of young acts for junior high youth workers. Cof Kingdom work. Believe, for instance, is partnering with some amazing junior high ministry experts for “CIY does great things for junior high ministry and its 2018/19 tour – from rapper KJ-52, to illusionist Zak I’ve seen up close that they care,” Herman said. “That’s Mirzadeh, to the fast-rising worship collective Revenant who I want to partner with – someone who really cares Worship. And joining those incredible ministry and considers what works in this phase of kids’ lives. partners are Kurt Johnston and Justin Herman with the They understand the digital space with youth and how Controlled Chaos Junior High to leverage it the right way that Ministry Podcast. “ connects with them. They also love youth workers.” “CIY believes the Controlled CIY does great things for Chaos podcast is one of the best The Controlled Chaos podcast podcasts out there for youth junior high ministry and I’ve is full of conversations, advice, ministers,” said Eryn Aubey, seen up close that they care. ideas and glimpses into the CIY’s senior director of customer hearts of junior high youth development. “It focuses solely That’s who I want to partner workers. At the mic is Herman, on junior high, which aligns with – someone who really a native of Buffalo, New York with the values and beliefs of our and current junior high pastor Believe and MIX programs. All cares and considers what at Sandals Church in Irvine, our programs are age-intentional, works in this phase of kids’ California; and Johnston, the with the understanding that there student pastor at Saddleback are big differences between junior lives. Church in Lake Forest, California. high and high school students. Together Johnston and Herman Controlled Chaos specifically have hosted many special offers commentary from some of ” guests on the podcast – such the greatest people out there right as Andy Stanley, founder of now in junior high ministry, and North Point Ministries – and we are proud to partner with the podcast and encourage published several books. The latest book is a revised youth ministers to listen to it to glean new ideas and version of “Controlled Chaos: Making Sense of Junior important knowledge for their ministries.” High Ministry,” which was published in October. These publications are available on Amazon.com and Herman said the weekly podcast began in February as YouthCartel.com. a fun project with his mentor and junior high ministry (Continued on next page)

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“This is an updated and expanded version of the book that came out 17 years ago,” Johnston said. “So many of the principles of the book are timeless. The world around junior highers changes, but who they are and the age intentionality doesn’t. One of the bigger changes in the book is the emphasis on the partnership with parents. It’s been an educational 17 years for the Church to realize healthy parents help raise healthy kids. It’s not the Church’s job to disciple kids – it’s mom and dad.”

The book provides insight into the trenches of junior high ministry from Johnston’s perspective not only as a youth worker, but as a parent. He said he hopes it will help youth leaders continue the ABOVE: Justin Herman with Controlled Chaos Podcast interviews Believe conversation on how to connect students to Christ, speaker Jeff Walling. BELOW: Students attending a Believe conference how to set parents up to win and how to encourage in Dallas, TX, worship during one of the main sessions led by the churches to establish well-defined missions and Revenant Worship band. strategies.

“I think what sets this book apart from others is that it’s been tested over the course of a decade and it still works,” Herman said. “It’s not a fad of youth ministry – it’s classic, quality, tested youth ministry philosophy. It’s relatable, practical and you can have conversations around it. There are questions in the back of every chapter, and I really like that.”

The Controlled Chaos team is looking to the future with a new blog and other new resources for junior high ministers across the world. Herman said he is excited for the youth ministry that’s happening around the world – especially after hearing podcast feedback from listeners in 38 countries.

“I don’t know what’s going to be next, but I do know that we’re going to keep going – more resourcing, more coaching and more training,” Herman said. “And if it were to all end tomorrow, Kurt and I would still do the podcast. It was the generosity and validation of others that helped move the podcast forward. A lot of youth workers want to develop as leaders, and the most important things I pray for them are discernment and wisdom. For volunteers, I pray for their perspective on the long view. When they’re feeling hopeless, I hope they can take a step back and think about this stage of life and know they’re making a difference.”

Find the Controlled Chaos podcast at controlledchaospodcast.com.

KINGDOM WORKER CONNECTION 17 A LOOK AT CONVERSATIONS

Students connect during pilot year for ‘Convos’ in small group time

STORY BY BECCA HAINES

Effect – CIY’s division dedicated to creating digital first-hand some of the best responses from junior high students resources that help spark conversations – has created when there’s a tangible connection to Biblical messages. a new tool to help youth leaders avoid awkward silences and guide students into taking ownership of “All of these tangible items we give students cross over into their Asmall group time. small group conversations,” Branton said. “In the past we’ve given them packets or games on the topics. It’s time for us to Believe and SuperStart attendees are trying out a new web-based jump into the digital world and begin utilizing that in a tangible app called “Convos.” The app serves as a platform on mobile way with things they already have in their hands. We can show devices that utilizes video content, questions, polls and other students how to use their phones in a way that’s not distracting interactive elements designed to be passed around a circle of but helpful. Convos gives junior high students that buy-in.” students. Eric Epperson, senior director of AEffect, said this development comes from the effort to merge four factors that can Jennifer Sommers, a youth worker with Fort Worth (TX) First turn a good conversation into a great conversation: information, Church of the Nazarene, said the new digital tool was an experience, wisdom and presence. enhancement to their small group time at Believe.

“A phone can tell you anything you want to know, but a phone “We loved how interactive it was,” she said. “We got some good can’t replace human connection or experience,” Epperson said. conversations from the kids when we got to the meat of the “We’re using the phone as a bridge – not a wall – and do what it questions. The games were fun, and our group of six was the was originally intended to do, which is to connect people. Convos perfect size for that experience. The bold question, ‘Tell me how takes the pressure off the youth leader to pull the conversation you know you’re a child of God,’ was a big moment. Finding out out of thin air and keeps him or her from filling the void with where they were in their faith – from all of them – was great. Then words – because no one likes silence – and instead puts a small we as youth leaders went around and answered the question. screen in the middle of the circle. They can just push play For them to hear that was really neat. The goal is to strengthen and follow along. We want people to have great conversations relationships, and this was a great step in that direction.” because those are the building blocks of discipleship.” Looking to the future, Epperson said Convos has the potential Patrick Snow, senior director of weekend events, said Convos to sustain an ongoing library of conversation topics from plays into a young demographic with exciting potential for which anyone can facilitate discussions and fun interaction. students to grow and mature in their faith. This endeavor falls in line with CIY’s history of pioneering new avenues to connect with the next generation in order to amplify “Convos works well for preteens because they’re all about Christ’s call on students’ lives to be Kingdom workers. coming into ownership of their faith at this point in their lives,” Snow said. “That’s what you want to see as a youth pastor. “Small group conversations aren’t necessarily about what Because of the interactive nature of the app, the students will you know, but more what you think and feel,” Epperson said. get to lead the question or conversation, and it helps build that “Something powerful happens when you have less phones than ownership and teaches them this is what small group is all about. people – all of a sudden it’s a shared experience, not an isolating It’s not just you sitting there listening. A small group is people one. If you watch young people, there are usually several people talking about what God is doing in their lives – there’s active around one phone. Convos is just another platform – another participation from everybody. And Convos allows that.” stage we can use to call students to Kingdom work.”

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5.2 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT KJ-52

STORY BY BECCA HAINES PHOTO CRAIG DAVENPORT

J-52 was born Jonah Sorrentino in Miami, Florida. He entered the hip-hop world in the early 2000s and has made appearances with several mainstream Christian bands such as Newsboys, Toby Mac and Jeremy Camp, while receiving many awards for his music – even earningK a team spot in the “Guinness Book of World Records” for the longest freestyle rap of all time (12 hours and two minutes). Junior high students are having a blast with him on this year’s Believe tour. Not only does he bring a high-energy presence to worship on stage, he also takes time between main sessions to hang out with kids and even play some games. He’s a man with a deep connection to God and a great story … and he’s full of hidden secrets. Here are 5.2 things you didn’t know about KJ-52:

1. He’s pursuing a ministry degree. Between shows, tours and recording sessions, KJ is pursuing a degree in church ministry. He’s only six courses away from completing his degree. In fact, by the time you read this he may have already graduated from West Coast Bible College in Dallas, Texas.

2. He takes his music to juvenile detention centers. He has plans to do a Christmas tour at some of the 20 detention centers in Florida.

3. He’s making a Christmas album and getting ready to write a book. KJ said he’s eager to show people a new kind of Christmas music that still brings glory and honor to Jesus and the story of his birth and his gift of salvation to the world. As for his book … he said it will be filled with crazy stories from his life.

4. He loves street art. KJ has “messed around with art forever,” albeit not professionally. He said hip-hop re-contextualized art for him and over the past couple of years he’s taken it more seriously. One of the detention centers even commissioned him to create some art for one of their walls.

5. He loves exercise. Not only does KJ set a high standard for himself as a performer, he also likes to challenge himself physically. He said he pushes himself off-stage because he knows it will benefit what he does on stage.

5.2 He’s totally a family man. KJ is married, and he and his wife have three boys – ages 11, 7 and 3. He calls them his “little wolf children.”

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STORY BY AUDREY WUNDERLICH PHOTOS BY MARK NEUENSCHWANDER

KINGDOM WORKER CONNECTION What one man dared to dream 50 years ago continues to grow into the next 50 years. As CIY’s celebration of its 50th anniversary comes to a close, its leaders look to the next 50 years with hope and more God-sized dreams.

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Jayson French recieves prayer from CIY’s board of trustees and former presidents in the moments following the CHRIST IN YOUTHannouncement that he will be the organization’s sixth president beginning Sept. 1, 2019. 22

Andy Hansen, CIY president, gives a keynote address during the 50th anniversary celebration on Aug. 30. In his message Hansen emphasized the many ways God has been faithful to CIY over the years, and how he expects the same for the future.

raise to Him who specializes in the impossible” is a One member of the audience was Bob Stacy, CIY’s founding statement that was heard multiple times on Aug. 30, president. He and his wife Nell sat at a table at the very front of 2018 as friends and staff of Christ In Youth gathered to the auditorium, and they watched along with hundreds of others celebrate 50 years of Kingdom work. The evening was as CIY celebrated the rich history of the ministry alongside filledP with a beautiful balance of looking back on all God has future dreams of what God could do in the next 50 years. Stacy accomplished through the ministry of CIY and looking forward to is a man who has displayed an obedience to God’s dreams for an what God will continue to do. entire lifetime, and as such he immediately recognized that the opportunities French was presenting were ones that echoed the “God has gone before us for 50 years, and He will go before us sentiments once given by himself 50 years earlier. again,” said Executive Vice President Jayson French from stage just moments after it was announced to the public that he would “I thought that God could do the impossible, so I never put a carry on the torch as CIY’s next president starting in September limit on it,” Stacy said during an interview on the day of the 50th 2019. Andy Hansen, CIY’s current president and a member of the anniversary celebration. “To be honest, I thought that it would ministry for more than 33 years, will step down as president in grow and grow and grow, and that God could do more than I could September 2019 but remain on staff full-time to continue to help imagine or think. I still believe that.” with fundraising and partner development. God is the giver of big dreams – it’s something we see all

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Jeff Walling challenges partners of CIY to plant some “shade trees” – a metaphor for laying a foundation for future generations by partnering with the ministry of CIY today through prayer, promotion and provision. throughout Scripture. From the dreams of Joseph to someday think. CIY has reached more than 1 million people over the past save his family, to the shepherd boy David dreaming what his life 50 years … how many more millions will the ministry reach over as king could look like, to Jesus in His humanity looking toward the next 50 years? the future restoration He would bring in His resurrection. For hundreds of years God has been speaking in dreams, supporting The dreams God has planted in the hearts of those who support dreams and using dreams as tools to further His Kingdom. CIY are big, audacious and sometimes scary. Dreams rarely come to fulfillment without obstacles, which can oftentimes feel CIY has certainly been on the receiving end on some God-sized impossible to overcome. dreams. Most recently those dreams include international expansion to Ireland, Canada, India and beyond. They include Stacy was no stranger to this, as the first years of the ministry of additional events with annual attendees in the hundreds of CIY held some impossible obstacles that couldn’t be overcome thousands. They include new endeavors on the digital front with without the mercy and power of Christ. aims at ministering to young people every day, no matter where they are in the world. “At times, we prayed for $1,500 to meet bills,” he said. “We would need something by the 15th of the month and I’d get the staff But as Stacy said, we fully expect that it will grow and grow and grow and that God will do more than we could ever imagine or (Continued on next page)

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together and we’d pray, ‘God, by the 15th of the month, please.’ that students are made for Kingdom work. We are not saved by And you know, I remember often that God sent that somehow. I’d anything but grace, but we recognize that God gives us each go to the post office to get the mail and on the way to the office, I’d unique skills, talents and abilities and then invites us to use them be opening envelopes and looking at the checks. And I remember for His Kingdom. We believe that God is doing things in advance one time when I got back (to the office), I had somebody go to a for preteens, for junior high kids, for high school kids, and we calculator and add it up because I thought that it was just right. want to be there to be a part of that moment when he prepares I said, ‘You know, I think we have enough, plus stamp money, them for Kingdom work. And through all that, French said, we will to send the bills in.’ They added it up and it was so. Things like continue to have an attachment to the local church. that happened continually. So, God just blessed and blessed to the point where I cried at times. Although I believe He does the The commitment to the local church is not a new concept for impossible, at times all of us say, ‘I can’t believe He did that!’” anyone who is familiar with CIY, and the roots of such a posture goes back to the beginning days of the ministry. Impossible obstacles are just opportunities for God to show Himself faithful – which “ “When CIY began in the ‘60s, it was a He does, time and time again. Having hard time for youth and a hard time for dreams and having obstacles are the very Let them know that they have the Church because so many leaders were tools used in God-sized dreams, because saying, ‘Christ, but not the church,’” Stacy they require faith in God’s power and the Imago Dei (image of God) said. “I thought to myself, ‘Christ would complete obedience to Him. stamped on their very hearts. be very displeased with such.’ And so, I began to emphasize the Book and the French didn’t shy away from the obstacles And let them know that the faithfulness to His Church. That’s what that are in the way of CIY’s big dreams. As Church still matters – it is youth first learned from us: the Book and he confidently laid a charge before those in go home and be faithful in His Church.” the audience that monumental evening, God’s answer to a broken he unashamedly asked everyone to join world. By the grace, and to the glory of God, CIY in the cause – to support the ministry has been a tool that has reached 1 million in sacrificial ways so as to realize those people over 50 years, with thousands God-sized dreams. To achieve some of ” of lives changed all over the world ... all those dreams will mean major donations because a man took his dream, rooted it of prayer, promotions and financial in the Gospel, believed people were made provision. It would be easy to look at those for Kingdom work and attached his dream seemingly insurmountable mountains and say, “Let’s try to to serving the Church. Despite the many often “impossible” accomplish something a little more realistic.” obstacles of that dream, God turned human limits into a ministry that has grown to encompass the entire globe. But realistic isn’t how God operates. He specializes in the impossible. In the closing statement of French’s charge, he reminded that when we have Jesus, we have light. And because of that light, we And so as French challenged the audience that evening to be have dreams that can be used to impact the world. obedient to the dreams God has planted before the ministry, a renewed excitement for what dreams God has for CIY began to “It’s not the size of the light that matters, it’s your willingness to let burst forth. Those efforts will be rooted in some “boundary stones” it shine,” he said. “Your willingness to get out of your comfort zone. that French said will never be removed from CIY’s ministry. As Your willingness to move into dark places. Your willingness to lift CIY moves into the next 50 years of ministry, there are a few things up this call to Kingdom work. It will be rooted in the Gospel. Let that will remain the same. them know they have the Imago Dei (image of God) stamped on their very hearts. And let them know that the Church still matters French specifically referenced the fact that CIY has always been – it is God’s answer to a broken world. We will not stop shining.” rooted in the Gospel, and that will never change. Anchoring our dreams in the Gospel allows those dreams to be bigger than May you continue to shine and continue to make your dreams ourselves – even bigger than this lifetime – because no matter the God-sized. And as you do, may you continue to praise Him who dream, there is one main point: Jesus. French also emphasized specializes in the impossible.

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Lindsey Brown sits with a Cambodian child while at one of Rapha House’s Kids Clubs during an Engage trip this summer. 27 MISSIONS IS A LIFESTYLE

Emphasis on Seven Mission Principles helps young people embrace lifestyle of missions

STORY BY BRAD WARREN

This is the first in a seven-part series that will examine CIY Engage’s Seven Mission Principles, which are taught to every student who joins Engage for an international mission trip. The principles are: Missions is a Lifestyle, Observation Before Interpretation, Church Matters, Cultures are Beautiful and Broken, Do Things With not For People, God is Already Working, and Poverty is Everywhere.

lorious sports moments often involve a player with In July, I co-led a team of 19 people from Willowdale Chapel the ball in his or her possession: Michael Jordan’s in the Philadelphia area on an Engage trip to the Dominican dunk from the free throw line at the 1988 Dunk Republic. A Dominican woman named Cristhianne Corporan Contest; Doug Flutie hitting Gerard Phelan on a picked us up from the airport with her son, Caleb, and we GHail Mary pass to give Boston College a win over Miami in were off. For seven days we were engaged in non-stop worship, 1984; Brandi Chastain’s go-ahead penalty kick to give the U.S. discipleship, work and fun. Cris was by our side through it all. Women’s Soccer Team the World Cup title over China in 1999; She stayed in the same house as us, she went to all the places we and the list goes on. The best players want the ball and a chance went, and she did all the things we did. It didn’t take us long to to create exciting moments. But anyone who realize what Cris was sacrificing to be with has ever played a team sport is probably us. She lived with her mom and her two adult familiar with an axiom that I love to use children, all of whom she was giving up time when coaching soccer: “What you do when with for us. She was forsaking the comfort you don’t have the ball is as important as of her own home to sleep on bunk beds in what you do when you have the ball.” a house with more than 20 other people. She was waking up early and going to bed Many high school and college students late to make sure that our every need was view an international mission trip as their met. And, she was doing all of this to serve spiritual moment “with the ball,” so to as a powerful voice challenging our team to speak. Their trip is the apex of months or pray, to stay in tune with the Spirit, and to years of hard work fundraising, researching selflessly serve others. and preparing for their trip. It’s a high point in their faith, and a moment that they often Engage’s mission partners in the Dominican view as the pinnacle of their experience as Republic are El Circulo Church and a Christian teenager. It’s a rare moment in their faith journey International Justice Mission. Throughout the course of the trip, when a high concentration of their friends and loved ones we learned about all of the ways that each of those organizations want to hear their stories, see their pictures and relive their is ministering to the people of the Dominican Republic. It took experiences with them. It’s a moment when people are paying our team a while to figure out how Cris fit into the picture. attention, and it is worthy of the excitement that it usually The natural assumption would have been that she was a staff garners. But what you do when you don’t have the ball is as member at El Circulo Church, given her level of involvement important as what you do when you have it. and her ability to give up a week of her time to be with our team. I think that’s what most of our teammates thought, albeit The metaphor works with the idea of “missions,” as well. mistakenly. I’ll never forget the looks on their faces when my Missions is not a moment, a trip, a week or a project. Missions is co-leader, Morgan, told them that Cris was actually volunteering a lifestyle. her time to be with us that week. They were in disbelief that she

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would be willing and able to give up an entire week of her time to live 10 minutes from the comfort of her own home and hang out with 21 strangers from the U.S. Cris is a teacher by trade, and she also works part-time as a remote receptionist for a doctor in Puerto Rico. As far as the organizational structure of El Circulo Church is concerned, she is just another church member. But her service to Jesus through El Circulo and the sacrifices that she makes to that end are invaluable.

The thing that I most want our Dominican Republic teams to know about Cris Corporan is that when we leave, nothing changes. She is still living every day looking for ways to be part of what God is doing all around her. She is still making a profound impact on her community through the way that she loves God, loves people and serves the Church. Cris didn’t go anywhere to be on mission. She didn’t leave her home, or build a house, or learn a new language, or fundraise. She is on mission in her own back yard.

Every day, Cris is living out what it means to be a Kingdom worker. That’s why Engage trips are so important. Engage trips don’t only give students the opportunity to do Kingdom work for one week in another country, they train students for a life of Kingdom work. On our trips, we expose teams to people like Cris, living and serving all over the world, to show them that they have the ability and opportunity to go back home and daily live out the calling that Christ has placed on their lives to be Kingdom workers. Missions is not just going to the Dominican Republic and hanging out with Cris for a week. Missions is also what you do when you get home.

Brad Warren, program administrator with CIY’s Engage team, has fun with some Kenyan children during a visit to the country earlier this year. Warren and the Engage team are intentional about helping young people from the U.S. interact with Kingdom workers in other countries to help them get an up-close look at what it means to embrace the idea of missions as a lifestyle.

CIY’S SEVEN MISSION PRINCIPLES:

1. Missions is a Lifestyle 5. Observation Before Interpretation 2. Cultures are Beautiful and Broken 6. Do things WITH, not FOR People 3. Church Matters 7. God is already working 4. Poverty is Everywhere

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STORY BY BECCA HAINES

ryce Wright is a high schooler with spina bifida among the 116 high school students were Kelly – who once again – a condition that has hindered his spinal cord picked up Wright from his wheelchair, but this time so that they development since birth. But he doesn’t let his could stand together and answer God’s call on their lives. wheelchair keep him from standing for Jesus. B “It was such an awesome moment,” Kelly said. “We had the idea Wright is a sophomore at Maize South High School in Wichita, that we were going to stand, but we didn’t know how it was going Kansas, and attends Pathway Church. His best friend, Anders to work out. The moment came – they made the call – and I leaned Kelly, is a fellow sophomore at the high school. The two connected down and said, ‘I’m going to just pick you up so people can see we last summer at MOVE – noting their relationship got a jumpstart mean this,’ and he hugged onto me. We cried and prayed – just from inspiring speakers and heartfelt videos about showing thanking God for this week.” kindness to others. Kelly said he suspected Wright was lonely before their friendship MOVE Program Coordinator Caleb took off – seemingly isolated from many “ DeRoin got to know countless students functions due to his wheelchair … Wright from the 34-city tour last summer, but he said his friend was right. We had the idea that we were said he distinctly remembers Wright and going to stand, but we didn’t the specific moment when he looked up “I wasn’t as close to anyone before Anders,” from the stage into the balcony and saw Wright said. “It really meant something know how it was going to the silhouetted friends standing for their when he started showing up and we work out ... I leaned down Savior. started to really trust each other.” and said, ‘I’m going to just “Throughout the week, I had seen Bryce The friends started going to high school pick you up ...’ confined to a wheelchair, but he always football games together, playing video seemed to be having a phenomenal games, sitting next to each other in church experience and expressed the best attitude and participating more in youth group. ” and outlook,” DeRoin said. “That student Wright said a defining moment in this was helped by another student to stand up blossoming friendship happened last fall when their youth group to answer God’s call to vocational ministry. Emotion rushed over wanted to conquer a corn maze together. Kelly and Wright found me and I had to leave the room. What a beautiful image of love, themselves not only lost, but stuck. and what a beautiful image of Kingdom work above all else.”

“The maze was muddy, and my wheelchair was getting stuck Wright and Kelly said there’s no doubt that God brought them quite a bit,” Wright said. “The rest of the group made it out but together and they have seen Him move so powerfully in their Anders, me and two other people were very lost. We wanted to friendship that they’re willing to base their futures on it and get out of there … so Anders picked me up out my wheelchair and boldly share their testimonies with others. carried me! It was a long ways, too. That really built our friendship because I felt like I could trust him.” “I want to show people that no matter what condition you’re in, you can pursue whatever you want,” Wright said. “I’ve been called Wright and Kelly returned to MOVE this summer in Lincoln, to share my story. I feel if there’s an obstacle, you shouldn’t let it Nebraska, where they learned even more about each other – stop you. I feel the Holy Spirit has led me to a new path for my life including personal struggles with sin. As that bond strengthened, and there’s more steps I need to make in my faith – from people they decided to form an alliance to face those battles together. I hang out with and the things I do. Anders isn’t like a friend At the end of the week when the MOVE team invited students anymore – I would say we’re brothers. It’s beyond a friendship to stand to declare their commitments to vocational ministry, now.” TO BE CONTINUED

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REGISTER AT CIY.COM/MOVE CHRIST IN YOUTH 32 STORIES FROM THE ROAD Engage is continuing to train students for a life of Kingdom work by leading trips to countries all over the world. Young people on these trips go through training that includes Engage’s Seven Mission Principles. The following are testimonies from Kingdom workers who have traveled with Engage and participated in the training.

KYLEE HAUXWELL, 18 (KENYA)

Playing with these children was an amazing experience, but what was even better was getting to share God’s love with these children … When the children just wanted to hold our hands or talk, they really just wanted someone to show them love. Showing love to these children was super easy, but it was very hard to say goodbye. None of us wanted to leave.

JAKE BERGLIN, 19 (NORTHERN IRELAND)

When I went to Northern Ireland this past summer I was able to realize just how God uses His people in the world. Working with the local kids made me see just how broken – yet beautiful – the world is. God uses us and those around us to reach those in the broken parts and add to the beauty that already exists.

CARRIE LARGEN, 23 (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)

I am amazed how God can use a mission trip before and after the flights. I was able to discuss my purpose for the trip with multiple individuals before I left and had conversations about faith that normally wouldn’t have come up afterward. The most important aspect of the trip was God giving me a heart that was willing to say, “I will go.”

MIA BUCKLEY, 16 (NORTHERN IRELAND)

We got to know each other in such a close environment where we were growing, learning and seeing the Lord work in our lives – as well as others – every day all day. We honestly became like a family. They are the only ones on the planet who experienced that with me. When we’re together it’s like no time has passed. When I went to a reunion after the trip I was expecting it to be awkward, but honestly it was like we had never left Ireland. Each one of them is truly a blessing in my life, and I can’t imagine not having met them.

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the way. But coupled with those stories friend recently asked me a have been incredible opportunities for the question that caught me off future. Specifically, CIY’s Multiply cam- guard: Why do we keep paign – which seeks to raise $6 million procrastinating when we know over three years – will answer one of the itA causes us so much anxiety? biggest charges God has placed before us. With those funds we can expand to more That thought has been rattling around in events globally, build a new film studio my head ever since, and I can’t help but and training center, and purchase equip- think about the many ways we procrasti- ment to create the kinds of resources that nate. There are all kinds of reasons – from connect so well with young people today. disorganization, to lack of motivation, to over-filled schedules and more. All of us To reach that goal, however, we need your can probably admit that we don’t like pro- help. All year we’ve asked you to partner crastinating and that we want to do some- with us in three very specific ways: prayer, thing to change that repeating pattern. promotion and provision. I’ve decided to adopt the mindset of Scott Walker Why wait until later to help us with those “Choose now.” We truly only have a short three things? There’s no better time than time on this earth to make a difference, SENIOR DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT the moment in front of you. Choose now and if we put things off then we’re wasting CHRIST IN YOUTH to pray for this organization and the the gift of time that God has given us. many young people it reaches every year. Choose now to promote its events, mis- No matter what it is I need or want to do, I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE TO CIY’S sion trips and resources to someone who there’s no better time than the present. MULTIPLY CAMPAIGN: needs to be connected. And choose now Some of you might be thinking that’s to provide financially for the ministry in impractical, but since I’ve embraced this _ I would like to give a one-time $50 gift. whatever way you’re able to. motto I’ve discovered that it really takes _ I would like to give a one-time $500 gift. me less time than I think it does to accom- The end of the year is the perfect time to plish the little tasks in front of me, and _ I would like to give a one-time gift of ______. give a financial gift to CIY. Not only does when I do those things as soon as they’re _ I would like to give a monthly gift of ______it help the ministry at a critical time of the presented to me it definitely helps me to throughout 2019. year, but it also gives you the opportunity have more peace of mind. to claim that gift as a tax deduction on your upcoming tax statement. What does any of this have to do with CIY PLEASE CONTACT ME TO DISCUSS and the opportunities that are currently MORE GIVING AND PARTNERSHIP Please don’t wait. Please choose now to presented before the ministry? Quite a lot. OPPORTUNITIES WITH CIY. pray, promote and provide for CIY.

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